For N. Korea, “conditions have changed: a new generation of leaders, more pressure from sanctions, and greater awareness of the outside world among N. Koreans... Moreover, talks at the leaders level have simply never been tried before.
N.Koreas nuclear arsenal has been their ‘black mail” for the International community to keep feeding them and propping up the regime...because they cannot survive otherwise. Only about 20% of the land is available to cultivate crops, all done basically by hand.
They are basically a welfare state for the people as everything the International Leaders sends goes through the leadership then the army before any gets to the people. Their army is ‘skinny’ now as the sanctions are working...
Kim has no choice really he has to do this..and frankly I think he’s had enough......
"The U.S. government, especially President Trump’s strong leadership, has been a great
support in…setting the current atmosphere of dialogue."............"In seeking closer inter-Korean
relations, "the Moon Jae-in administration will not repeat the same mistakes of the past."......
"A Nobel prize for president Trump and peace for the Korean Peninsula," Song Youngmoo tells SLD18 delegates.
What’s changed is China can profit more from exploiting a peaceful NK than by using it as a military threat.
Trump’s forcing China to change NK sooner than it wants, but it’s still in their interest.
Nice reports!